35th Kidlington Chess Congress, 04.02.2012-05.02.2012

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35th Kidlington Chess Congress, 04.02.2012-05.02.2012

Post by Dave Ewart » Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:10 pm

Well-attended again this year, although it looks like there were a number of withdrawals prior to the final day due to weather-related travel issues (i.e. snow).

Cross-table results:

U-225: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-180: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-145: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-120: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

On a personal note, I moved up from the U-145 to U-180 this year and was overall happy with 50%, see http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=687

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Post by LawrenceCooper » Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:20 pm

Dave Ewart wrote:Well-attended again this year, although it looks like there were a number of withdrawals prior to the final day due to weather-related travel issues (i.e. snow).

Cross-table results:

U-225: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-180: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-145: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-120: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

On a personal note, I moved up from the U-145 to U-180 this year and was overall happy with 50%, see http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=687
Congratulations to William Foo for outright first and also to Marcus Harvey, Isaac Sanders, Roger de Coverley and Ray Starkie for 200+ performances. Also nice to see both Anna and Maria Wang playing, Anna had a 186 performance and Maria beat Andrew Smith whilst performing around her own rating overall.


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Post by Ian Thompson » Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:33 pm

Dave Ewart wrote:Well-attended again this year, although it looks like there were a number of withdrawals prior to the final day due to weather-related travel issues (i.e. snow).
Brendan O'Gorman wrote:Some photos here: http://tinyurl.com/Kidlington-Pics
Looking at the way most people are dressed in the photos, it seems that there were adverse weather conditions inside the hall as well as outside.

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Post by Brendan O'Gorman » Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:29 pm

Ian Thompson wrote:......

Looking at the way most people are dressed in the photos, it seems that there were adverse weather conditions inside the hall as well as outside.
Heating problems during first round.

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Post by Dave Ewart » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:05 pm

Brendan O'Gorman wrote: Heating problems during first round.
I was on one of the boards closest to the main entrance during that first round and the outside temperature of -8'C at dawn certainly made itself felt.

This situation improved as the event progressed and I failed to win my games(!): I moved down the board order, away from the cold door and into the (warmer) middle of the crowded room. With the heating working again, I was actually too *hot* in the final round ;-)

BTW I'm not really complaining: I got a very cold nose in the first round, but still played quite well!

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Post by Peter D Williams » Mon Feb 13, 2012 6:07 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Dave Ewart wrote:Well-attended again this year, although it looks like there were a number of withdrawals prior to the final day due to weather-related travel issues (i.e. snow).

Cross-table results:

U-225: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-180: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-145: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

U-120: http://home.btconnect.com/OCA/2012%20do ... Table.html

On a personal note, I moved up from the U-145 to U-180 this year and was overall happy with 50%, see http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=687
Congratulations to William Foo for outright first and also to Marcus Harvey, Isaac Sanders, Roger de Coverley and Ray Starkie for 200+ performances. Also nice to see both Anna and Maria Wang playing, Anna had a 186 performance and Maria beat Andrew Smith whilst performing around her own rating overall.

Yes very well done by Willams Foo and to Marcus Harvery, Isaac Sanders.I wonder what help support is given to these 3 Junior players by ECF?
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Post by John McKenna » Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:42 pm

[Dave Ewart] Brendan O'Gorman >Heating problems during first round.<

DE >I was on one of the boards closest to the main entrance during that first round and the outside temperature of -8'C at dawn certainly made itself felt... <

According to reports the temp. at the Aeroflot 'Open' in Moscow has been as low as -25C! Hope the heating is working well there.

[Peter D Williams] Lawrence Cooper >Congratulations to William Foo for outright first and also to Marcus Harvey, Isaac Sanders, Roger de Coverley and Ray Starkie for 200+ performances...<

PDW >Yes very well done by Willams Foo and to Marcus Harvery, Isaac Sanders.I wonder what help support is given to these 3 Junior players by ECF?<

Don't hold out much hope for a reply from the ECF on such confidential matters with the top-down policy of no comment on anything that might smack (no pun intended) of controversy.

However, a sufficient period of time may have elapsed to ask the ECF if Roger & Ray received help/support in their formative years as chessplayers.

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Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:05 pm

John McKenna wrote:However, a sufficient period of time may have elapsed to ask the ECF if Roger & Ray received help/support in their formative years as chessplayers.
Whilst the BCF in the sixties did a certain amount of junior development, it was mostly confined to players from major conurbations. However whether because of the BCF, or despite it, nearly every state funded academic institution had chess teams. It was the way of the world, your school played against other schools at rugby, cross country running and chess as did Colleges and Universities against one another. So for that matter did businesses in the financial sector, at chess if not running.

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Post by Neill Cooper » Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:47 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote: It was the way of the world, your school played against other schools at rugby, cross country running and chess as did Colleges and Universities against one another. So for that matter did businesses in the financial sector, at chess if not running.
And Industry. I remember in the Berkshire league: Sperry, Post Office, ICL, Premier Precision, Smiths Industries and Bracknell Industries.

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Post by Alex Holowczak » Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:37 pm

Roger de Coverly wrote:It was the way of the world, your school played against other schools at rugby, cross country running and chess as did Colleges and Universities against one another.
This still goes on today in most other sports. My old school had regular competitions against other schools in things like rugby, cricket, football, tennis, athletics, cross-country, netball, basketball, hockey, and chess. I suspect it's the same at most schools; except most schools have no demand for a chess club.

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Post by Peter D Williams » Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:52 pm

John McKenna says -"Don't hold out much hope for a reply from the ECF on such confidential matters with the top-down policy of no comment on anything that might smack (no pun intended) of controversy"

i do not think my question is in any way causing controversy.Not being involved in junior chess i just wondered what help support William ,Macus, Isaac get from the ECF?
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Post by Neill Cooper » Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:05 pm

Alex Holowczak wrote:
Roger de Coverly wrote:It was the way of the world, your school played against other schools at rugby, cross country running and chess as did Colleges and Universities against one another.
This still goes on today in most other sports. My old school had regular competitions against other schools in things like rugby, cricket, football, tennis, athletics, cross-country, netball, basketball, hockey, and chess. I suspect it's the same at most schools; except most schools have no demand for a chess club.
I think that there is still a demand for chess in secondary schools, but you now need to have someone to run chess teams (and school chess clubs). When Roger and I were at school the chess teams organised themselves and would go by public transport to the other school. If we were lucky, a parent would give us a lift home. Now you need to have a teacher and a school minibus.

Also, in the 1970s many of the schools with chess teams were grammar schools. I went to Maidenhead Grammar School which had chess teams, but none of the other ("secondary modern") schools in Maidenhead had a chess team. Some local comprehensive schools in Bracknell and Wokingham did. Rogers statement "nearly every state funded academic institution had chess teams" was an exaggeration, but compared to today it seemed like it. With many less grammar schools there are less chess playing schools, and so distances to travel to play each other are further.

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Post by Roger de Coverly » Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:18 pm

Neill Cooper wrote: Some local comprehensive schools in Bracknell and Wokingham did. Rogers statement "nearly every state funded academic institution had chess teams" was an exaggeration, but compared to today it seemed like it.
I used the word academic to mean the grammar schools and those schools in the comprehensive system, like Desborough, which retained some of the ethos. Risk assessments were of course totally unheard of and chess like other school cultural activities was largely organised by the sixth formers. It seemed that way at least. I expect that perpetuated to universities since by then you had match captains or organisers with several year's experience already. By contrast, I missed primary schools chess by several years, since that didn't really get going until the late sixties.

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Post by John McKenna » Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:06 am

Peter D. Williams >I do not think my question is in any way causing controversy. Not being involved in junior chess i just wondered what help support... get from the ECF?<
Hello Peter, I did not mean to imply that your question was the cause of any controversy. These days, however, there's a lot of controversy about regarding the ECF so they may be reluctant to reply to detailed questions on a public forum.
There's a new Junior Director, Phil Ehr, who can be contacted via the ECF website, you could ask him.

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